All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1418
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Whined and fined
It's time that companies stopped bleating about health and safety and looked at their responsibilities.
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Film makers
John Travolta has his own seat there and so do Emma Thompson and Kevin Costner. We come over all starry eyed at the new Tricycle Cinema.
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Inside the Millennium dome
The site At midnight on the 31 December 1999, the 300 acre Greenwich peninsula will be the focal point of the UK's Millennium celebrations. This is in marked contrast to the windswept dereliction which characterised the site for the last 20 years. It's heavily polluted soil (known officially as complex ...
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Show Dome
At the end of this year all eyes will be on the Millennium Dome. Its success or failure as an exhibition space could well hinge on the quality of the lighting design.
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What's going into the Dome?
Empty space. That's all there was to be seen in the Dome just a few months ago. But now the exhibitions are coming into focus. What will the public be paying to see?
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Details
Failure in sealed glazed units has hurt the industry’s reputation over recent years. Now warranty providers and joiners are addressing it.
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Dangerous liasons
Specifying and installing equipment in hazardous areas is a tricky business. This report tells of things to watch out for.
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From contamination to consensus
Redeveloping a gasworks site turned out to be foremost about building political alliances. The resulting partnership of Gleeson Homes, Ealing Family Housing Association and Reading Borough Council then had to win over the existing community. Josephine Smit reports from a seminar held by the RIBA and Zurich Building Guarantees on ...
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Out-of-town Commercial offices
This month the Cost Research and Engineering Services Departments of Davis Langdon & Everest examine the capital cost of mechanical and electrical installations for out-of-town office developments. The cost model covers design criteria and costs of a wide range of recent speculative and purpose-built projects to establish cost and specification ...
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Style-led plan for change
Local plans are taking so long to draw up and are so inflexible that they thwart regeneration. So time to end the unproductive debate about what a site can't be used for and let local authorities instead dictate the general look and style of development rather than its end use.
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Keeping pollution out of buildings
The benefits of ventilation fall away when outdoor air quality is low. John Fletcher argues that polluted outdoor air is best left outside.
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Brave new world German self-build
Self-build is taking the lion’s share of Germany’s new-build housing market. James Barlow and Karin Stockerl of SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research) at the University of Sussex look at how that has happened, and the lessons for UK housebuilders.
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An industry in need of some real brand champions
It’s one thing to improve product and service. It’s another to gain recognition for it. So it is an injustice that housebuilders currently changing out of all recognition are not yet being recognised by the public. But when they are, the rewards will be theirs.
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Bower power
Massive growth, but only the highest quality of work can it be done? Steve Wilton thinks so.
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Blowing in the wind
It began as a free running tent, but the Dome is now a controlled environment with an air change rate of 2·1 million m 3 every hour. Here's how it was done.
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Spot the ball
Cheating in the gambling world is no longer restricted to the black-jack table. We investigate football floodlighting sabotage.
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Austrians to launch first PVC substitute
Internorm to manufacture windows in new controversy-free plastic.
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For sequential test, read approach
Two key policy initiatives from the current government that will much affect the housebuilding industry will have surfaced by end of May. A new draft PPG3, statutory guidance for how local planning authorities deal with the placing and styling of housing, is imminent. Delays to the draft due in December ...
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Any cover you want
Will you be adequately insured if the new Environmental Protection Act bites in July?
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The load ahead
Security of power and adequate load provision for all possible uses were the two guiding tenets for the electricity supply to the Millennium Dome.